"Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doesn't."

"The biggest difference between England and America is that England has history, while America has geography."

"A library is a place that is a repository of information and gives every citizen equal access to it. That includes health information. And mental health information. It's a community space. It's a place of safety, a haven from the world."

"The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can."

"Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching."

"I have a dark sense of humor."

"The reason I turn down 99% of a hundred, I mean a thousand, scripts is because romantic comedies are often very romantic but seldom very funny."

"I'm so unprofessional on set it's not even funny."